Most of the women in ancient times were at the mercy of fate, like a duckweed on the river of fate, where the wind blows, they can't predict their future, and they don't know how to plan their lives, they are as small as a grain of dust in front of fate, they do what fate tells them to do, fate makes them happy, they are happy, they suffer if they are sinned, and they often say on their lips: I accept my fate, I am this fate. And the heroine Deng Sui who appeared next is a woman who does not accept fate, when others are choked by fate, she has to choke the throat of fate. To our surprise, she succeeded in doing it, this well-intentioned woman, her love and career followed her pre-designed steps, step by step, from the palace maid to the queen mother to the queen mother, and finally reached the peak of her ideals. What a strange woman in the world.
A knife on the head of the word ninja
If there is one word to describe Deng Sui's character, it is "forbearance". Deng Sui can endure more than all women, can endure, and it is precisely by forbearance that she can exchange for the love and life she wants.
In fact, Deng Sui doesn't need to endure it at all, she was born in a wealthy family, and those women from wealthy families in history didn't endure it, such as Gillian, such as Huo Chengjun, and then the supporting actress Yin Xiaohe who will appear below. None of them endured, only Deng Sui endured, so they all lost to fate, and only Deng Sui defeated fate.
Deng Sui is a new savage in Henan, her grandfather Deng Yu once fought the world with Liu Xiu, and later became the founding hero of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was named a marquis, and finally ended his political career with the country's most noble position - Taifu. Deng Sui's father, Deng Xun, was a captain of the Qiang Guard, and Deng Sui's mother was even bigger and was Yin Lihua's niece. It can be seen how prominent the Deng family is.
Born in such a family, if she were an ordinary woman, she would have been as proud as a peacock, but Deng Sui did not develop the temperament of Miss Qianjin at all. There is a small thing that can be explained, if this little thing is not made up by the historians, then Deng Sui's patience has to make us admire.
Deng Sui's grandmother loved her very much, and when she was five years old, her seventy and eighty grandmother had to cut her granddaughter's hair herself, but her hair was not cut well, but her forehead was stabbed by her grandmother's scissors. If it were an ordinary girl, she would have yelled in pain, but the smart and sensible little Deng Sui didn't say a word, and there was a happy expression on her face.
After the hair was cut, the maid who served her asked Xiao Deng Sui distressedly: "Aren't you afraid of pain?"
Xiao Deng Sui said: "Why are you not afraid? It's just that my grandmother cut my hair because she loves me, how can I hurt her old man's heart? ”
What a good granddaughter! If little Deng Sui's grandmother heard her say this, she would definitely hold her in her arms and burst into tears.
Not only that, but Deng Sui was also described as a child prodigy by historians. At a young age, Deng Sui was very interested in the Confucian classics, and at the age of twelve, she had already memorized the Four Books and the Five Classics by heart, and could say the morality in them and apply them to practical life. She often had debates with her brothers, and each time she won by a big margin. Seeing her like this, her mother said with some complaints: "Girls' families, don't study hard as female workers, why do you read so many books?"
Deng Sui is an obedient child, her mother said this about her, she quickly learned to work as a woman, she was talented and intelligent, she didn't study for a few days, and the embroidered flowers were more beautiful than her mother's embroidery, and her mother was amazed. But Deng Sui still got into the stacks of books when she was free, and her mother no longer stopped her, just shook her head and sighed, saying that she didn't look like a girl.
In fact, books laid a good foundation for Deng Sui's future life.
Her father liked Deng Sui's reading very much, thinking that she was not an ordinary girl, and her future achievements would definitely surpass her brothers. When Deng Sui was a little older, his father discussed with Deng Sui any problems he encountered, but not with her brothers.
According to his father's idea, Deng Sui must enter the palace, because if a woman at that time wanted to be prosperous and rich, entering the palace was the only way. Her father asked Deng Sui what she thought, and Deng Sui was happy to accept her father's suggestion, so when Deng Sui was twelve years old, she was selected by the beauty pageant and included in the roster of entering the palace. In fact, there is no need to choose a lady like her, and it is her father's word to enter the palace.
This time she was elected to the palace at the same time as Yin Xiaohe, with her eyes closed, you can imagine what kind of family Yin Xiaohe has behind her, the leader of this family is Yin Lihua, and Yin Xiaohe's great-grandfather is Yin Lihua's brother. In terms of generation, Yin Xiaohe is the cousin of Emperor Liu Zhao of the Han Dynasty.
If Deng Sui and Yin Xiaohe enter the palace at the same time, with Deng Sui's talent and appearance, under the premise that the family background is not much different, Yin Xiaohe is definitely not Deng Sui's opponent, and the queen's throne must be Deng Sui.
But at this time, something happened that made Deng Sui very sad, just the day before entering the palace, Deng Sui's father died suddenly.
It was also at this time that Deng Sui began his career of controlling his own destiny.
She doesn't actually have to keep filial piety, because her brother is there, because she is a woman, and she is about to enter the palace.
However, Deng Sui, who was quite assertive, chose another path, postponed the time to enter the palace, and first kept filial piety for his father for three years.
On the one hand, it comes from her unforgettable love for her father, who also gave her a lot of love when he was alive, and on the other hand, it comes from Deng Sui's temperament of abiding by Confucian filial piety since childhood, and the Confucian classics she has read have had a great impact on her outlook on life.
Many aspects of Confucian filial piety seem inconceivable to modern people.
Let's look at the Confucian etiquette law on the three-year observance of filial piety:
In terms of eating: Parents are not allowed to eat anything within three days after their death, only a small amount of water is allowed to drink; after three days to 100 days, they are only allowed to drink some porridge in the morning and evening; after 100 days to one year, only vegetables are allowed, and no seasoning is allowed to be put on vegetables; fruits can be eaten after one year; and after two years, vegetable porridge can be seasoned. Must be absolutely vegan for three years.
Aspects of living: before the funeral, you must live in a thatched hut that is not even as good as a kennel, the more dilapidated the thatched hut is, the better the thatched hut, the wind blows in, the rain can be drenched, when sleeping, only a thin mat is allowed, and a pillow is made of clods, of course, you don't want a pillow better; after the funeral, continue to live in the thatched hut, but the sleeping conditions have improved, you can thicken the mat, you can also use the mat as a pillow; you can go back to the house to sleep after two years, but you still can't sleep in the bed; you can restore the previous sleeping conditions after three years.
Not to mention wearing, only white filial piety clothes are allowed to be worn within three years.
In addition to food, clothing and shelter, the real filial son also has to cry. There are many ways to cry, before the funeral, you have to cry from time to time, and if there are no tears, you have to squeeze out tears; after the funeral, you cry once in the morning and evening; you can cry in the house after a year; after two years, you can cry as you like; relatives and friends come to mourn, no matter when, what your mood is, you must cry with grief, and you must cry out tears.
Such harsh conditions, not to mention a girl who has just turned twelve years old who has not been exposed to the sun and rain, even a man who works all year round and is five big and three rough may not be able to bear it, but to everyone's surprise, Deng Sui did it.
The brothers all put on a show, but Deng Sui strictly abides by filial piety, one is one, two is two, three years later, her face is haggard, shaped like a tree, no one will believe that she is the eldest lady of the Deng family, even her mother is almost unrecognizable.
The mother hugged her daughter and cried bitterly, but Deng Sui did not cry at this time, her tears had already dried up. She greeted her mother and family in a joyful tone, and then worriedly asked her if they were satisfied with her performance during the filial piety period.
The mother nodded again and again as if the chicken pecked rice, if such filial piety is not satisfied, who else in the world can surpass Deng Sui?
It can be seen how Deng Sui's endurance is, and she can be elected as the first tolerant queen in Chinese history.
Fortunately, Deng Sui had just finished his filial piety when he met Liu Zhao for the second audition of the palace maid.
Needless to say, the living standard of the Deng family is needless to say, and within a month, Deng Sui has returned to his previous appearance.
This time, Deng Sui did not give up and entered the palace as he wished, with the expectations of the whole family.
It is said that before entering the palace, Deng Sui had a bizarre dream, dreaming that she touched the sky with her hands and raised her head to suck stalactites. The other party said that Emperor Tang Yao had also dreamed that he climbed the pillar to the sky, and now Deng Sui has such a dream, which means that Deng Sui and Emperor Tang Yao will become the dragon and phoenix among people.
In fact, there is no need for dreams to predict, Deng Sui herself can predict her bright future.
Because she doesn't believe that the world can drop pies, all the glory and wealth must be created with her own hands.
Deng Sui's beauty
Deng Sui was twenty-eight years old when he entered the palace, and a year ago, that is, when Deng Sui's filial piety ended, Liu Zhao had already canonized Yin Xiaohe as the queen, and it was obvious that Yin Xiaohe became the queen by virtue of the power of the family. Before Deng Sui entered the palace, Liu Zhao was still satisfied with this little cousin who was a little barbaric and a little willful, but lively and cute.
However, after Deng Sui entered the palace, everything changed.
First of all, Deng Sui's beauty, her beauty shocked the entire palace, not only the men were amazed by Deng Sui's beauty, but even the Yin Queen, who claimed to be the first beauty in the harem, was ashamed of herself after seeing Deng Sui, of course, as the lord of the harem, Yin filial piety and mouth would not praise Deng Sui, the literati are light, and the beauties are also light, but in my heart, Yin filial piety and jealousy are terrible, if I have her so high, how good.
Deng Sui is indeed very tall, it is recorded in the history books that she is seven feet two inches tall, converted to about one meter seven, for women, one meter seven is their dream. Deng Sui's facial features are like carved by an artist, and they match seamlessly, and the skin on his face is as white as ice and snow, which makes people can't help but want to touch it. Historians will not easily give praise to a person's appearance, but the Book of the Later Han Dynasty gave Deng Sui the most beautiful words in the world without reservation. It can be seen that Deng Sui deservedly called the most beautiful woman in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Emperor period.
It is said that when Liu Zhao saw Deng Sui for the first time, he was stunned by her beauty, and he couldn't say a word for a long time, he thought that Yin Xiaohe should be regarded as the first beauty in the world, and after seeing Deng Sui, Yin Xiaohe was nothing.
In short, Deng Sui entered the palace, and the other palace maids no longer needed mirrors, because they knew that no matter how much they groomed and dressed, they couldn't compare to Deng Sui.
Soon, Liu Zhao was pleasantly surprised to find that Deng Sui not only has extraordinary external beauty, but also has unparalleled inner beauty, she is knowledgeable, has the elegant temperament of red sleeves and fragrance, she is dignified and virtuous, humble and polite, especially has a tolerant heart that ordinary women can't have, she rarely makes mistakes herself, and she will not forgive herself if she makes mistakes, but she can forgive other people who make mistakes, including the palace maids who serve her.
Therefore, there is no one in the palace who does not praise Deng Sui for being virtuous, and Liu Zhao loves her like a tide, and she can't wait to canonize her as a "nobleman" second only to the queen less than a month after she enters the palace.
didn't become a queen, Deng Sui was not disappointed, this is not to say that Deng Sui didn't want to be a queen, she wanted to be a queen, her goal from the first day of entering the palace was to be a queen, and she also had the capital to be a queen. So, she is not in a hurry, she has time, she has to take her time, she has to achieve her plan step by step.
Deng Sui was not panicked, but Yin Xiaohe was in a hurry, Deng Sui had only been in the palace for a few days, and Liu Zhao had robbed her of most of his love. Yin Xiaohe is the same as Gillian, she can't tolerate other women sharing a man with her, she and Liu Zhao have been childhood sweethearts for more than ten years, and they are cousins and sisters, she doesn't believe that she can't get Deng Sui.
So Yin Xiaohe adopted a follow-up strategy, watching Liu Zhao to the death, she followed him wherever he went, and almost didn't follow him to the court. also sneered from time to time, saying that there is no good thing in the men in the world, all of them are big turnips, see one love one, see two love a pair.
If Liu Zhao is an ordinary man, Yin Xiaohe is understandable to do this, and it can also show that she cares about Liu Zhao, and caring about him is loving him. However, Liu Zhao is not an ordinary man, he is an emperor, and the emperor is eligible to enjoy the beauty of the world. Yin Xiaohe and Gillian made the same mistake and treated the emperor as their own private property.
Liu Zhao soon couldn't stand Yin Xiaohe's stalking, he compared Yin Xiaohe with Deng Sui, and felt more and more that Yin Xiaohe was unbearable, except for a little bit of posture, there was nothing. So, for the first time in his life, he quarreled with Yin Xiaohe, saying that if he pestered him like this again, he would abolish her.
Yin Xiaohe was angry and returned to his parents' house, Liu Zhao couldn't wait, out of sight and out of mind, he had the opportunity to be like glue with Deng Sui.
Deng Sui is just the opposite of Yin Xiaohe, she has never regarded the emperor as her private property, since she has chosen to be the emperor's concubine, she has to accept the reality that the emperor has many concubines. The tighter Yin Xiaohe looked at Liu Zhao, the more Deng Sui let Liu Zhao go.
Deng Sui favored the harem, which is a well-known thing, but she never regarded Liu Zhao's favor as a capital to show off, she interacted with those palace maids who were not favored with an equal and friendly attitude, and took the initiative to recommend them to Liu Zhao. Those palace maids were so grateful to Deng Sui that they almost wanted to treat her as a reborn parent. Yin Xiaohe couldn't do it, Deng Sui did, but she came to question Deng Sui, it was the queen's duty to recommend the palace maid to the emperor, how could it be her turn to do it?
Yin Xiaohe went to Liu Zhao to complain, saying that Deng Sui was too good and should be punished. When Liu Zhao heard this, he suddenly felt funny in his heart, he knew very well whether Deng Sui had overstepped his rules, if Deng Sui was overstepping, then Yin Xiaohe was derelict in his duties.
Those who exceed the rules will be given a warning, and those who are derelict in their duties will be dismissed. Liu Zhao wanted to say this to Yin Xiaohe, but he held back, because it wasn't time yet.
In fact, it is impossible for a cautious woman like Deng Sui to cross the rules, she is careful every step she takes. There's a little thing to illustrate.
Deng Sui occasionally felt a cold and was sick in bed. Liu Zhao specifically approved that her family could enter the palace to take care of her until she recovered from her illness. This is a great gift for the palace maids, as soon as they enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, and some palace maids have never gone out in their lives, let alone let their families come to the palace to meet them.
In the face of such a gift, Deng Sui should be happy, but Deng Sui's reaction surprised Liu Zhao a lot, and she said worriedly: "I am afraid that this will bring a bad reputation to Your Majesty, the palace is not a place to go in and out casually, if I break the rules, what will those palace maids and ministers say? They will talk behind their backs, saying why I am the only exception." In this way, they think that His Majesty is unfair, especially the Empress, she will be very angry. ”
Who said that women have long hair and short knowledge, Deng Sui's knowledge is not necessarily shorter than Liu Zhaolai's.
Liu Zhao listened to Deng Sui's explanation, and felt more and more that Deng Sui had the demeanor of a mother.
Deng Sui is not only friendly to those palace maids who have not been favored by the emperor, but also to those concubines who have been favored by the emperor are like sisters, although she herself has not given birth to children for Liu Zhao, but the children of these concubines are regarded as her own, whenever the children of these concubines are sick or die, she has to personally visit, condole, and cry sadly. These concubines naturally have a good impression of Deng Sui, and think that she is a good person, a thousand times better than the queen, and the queen should call her to be the queen. If the queen can also be elected, they will definitely vote for Deng Sui.
Deng Sui's cleverness lies in the fact that she was originally a bird, but she led the gun to Yin Xiaohe. Let's take the attitude towards the palace maids, Yin Xiaohe is arrogant to them, indifferent to their children, and ignores them. Originally, Deng Sui took away all the emperor's favor for the palace maids, but the palace maids were grateful to her, but hated Yin Xiaohe.
In order to balance the mentality of the palace maids, Deng Sui also made efforts, such as lying that she was sick and could not accompany Liu Zhao. Her purpose in doing this was to let Liu Zhao go to other palace maids, so as to divert the attention of the palace maids and avoid becoming the target of public criticism.
In daily life, Deng Sui also showed a different side from Yin Xiaohe. Entertainment events were often held in the palace, and whenever this happened, the palace ladies were dressed up in fancy clothes, hoping to attract the emperor's attention with their gorgeous appearances. Yin Xiaohe is even more so, every time she puts on makeup, it costs tens of thousands of dollars. Her dress is unique among all palace maids, she never wears the clothes that other concubines have, and of course her luxury is beyond the reach of other palace maids.
And our Deng Sui is always wrapped in light makeup, not because she doesn't have gorgeous clothes, but because she deliberately made it for Liu Zhao to see, she wanted him to see her different, even if she dresses plainly, she is still naturally beautiful, she still does not lose her style, she still stands out from the crowd. What's more, she also gained a good reputation for hard work and simplicity.
When she was with the queen, she let her everywhere, not jealous of her, not on an equal footing with her, even if Liu Zhao gave her privileges, she politely declined. Yin Xiaohe did not have Deng Suigao, when he was with her, Deng Sui tried to bend over and hunch over as much as possible to prevent Yin Xiaohe's self-esteem from being hurt.
All of this is not something that ordinary women can do, and Deng Sui's patience has reached the point where no one has ever done it before.
All this, in Liu Zhao's eyes, has become a manifestation of the mother's world, and he always said to Deng Sui distressedly, dear, you don't have to work so hard.
All of this, in the eyes of the palace maids, has become a manifestation of virtuous and virtuous virtue, self-denial and courtesy, and they regard Deng Sui as their own role model and the eldest sister of the harem.
However, in the eyes of Yin Xiaohe, all this has become a disguise, an ulterior motive, and a sinister and cunning. The more she looked at Deng Sui, the more unpleasant she became, and the more she looked at it, the more angry she became. Once a person is controlled by anger and jealousy, her fate can be imagined.
Yin Xiaohe stepped down
Liu Zhao is more and more fond of Deng Sui, and he is more and more indifferent to the queen Yin Xiaohe, at first Liu Zhao still felt a little ashamed of his childhood sweetheart's little cousin, and also named her father Yin Gang as a marquis, but later Yin Xiao and a series of performances made him completely lose interest in this woman, and even the guilt in his heart was gone.
He felt that Yin Xiaohe had come to this point by herself, and she deserved it.
The idea of abolishing the aftermath has already begun to arise.
And Yin Xiaohe couldn't think of anything but anger, and her opponent Deng Sui was unexpectedly strong.
At this time, a serious illness rushed towards Liu Zhao, and his weak body soon couldn't resist it, so he issued a critical illness notice.
Yin Xiaohe was not worried about her husband, but at this time she gloated, and at this time, her wife came to see her, so she got carried away and said: "It's okay now, the emperor is dead, my son is the emperor, and I am the queen mother." I am the Queen Mother, who will dare to oppose me? When the time comes, I must kill all the people of the Deng family, especially that fox spirit Deng Sui, if I don't cut her with a thousand knives, I can't understand the hatred in my heart!"
The old lady knew that the wall had ears, so she quickly covered her mouth and said "I can't say it, I can't say it."
But it was too late, and as soon as the words came out, disaster was coming.
Where did Yin Xiao and this elm head come to mind, her most intimate maid turned out to be Deng Sui's henchman.
We don't know what benefits Deng Sui gave to this maid, anyway, the maid felt that the opportunity to show herself had come, so she used the time to go to the toilet to tell Deng Sui the news.
Deng Sui, who has always been calm and hidden, was still shocked when she heard the queen's cruel words, she never thought about poisoning anyone, she was just trying to pursue her ideal of being the queen, this is not an exaggeration, everyone has ideals, no one stipulates that the queen is not an ideal, not to mention that Deng Sui still uses legitimate means. If she wants to poison her hands, can she still live to this day?
But Deng Sui has a very alert mind, and she did not rush in the face of the crisis, but turned the crisis into an opportunity to express herself.
She began to pretend to cry bitterly, and at this time she could not care about hypocrisy or hypocrisy, and she said while crying: "I have served the queen with all my strength, but I still do not get her favor, I don't know what crime I have committed, why did she say that she killed my whole family." Even if I make a mistake, what does it have to do with my family? Now that the emperor is not dead, the queen dares to say this, what should I do if the emperor has three longs and two shorts? I might as well die! I am willing to follow the example of Ji Dan and Yue Ji in ancient times and die for the emperor, so as to express my loyalty to the emperor, and at the same time to save my family from the scourge and prevent the queen from causing another tragedy. ”
As he spoke, Deng Sui took the poison and was about to pour it into his mouth.
What kind of characters are Ji Dan and Yue Ji? Ji Dan is the younger brother of Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu, and after his brother established the Zhou Dynasty, he suffered a serious illness. Ji Dan prayed to heaven and said that he was willing to die for his brother, because his brother was a king and had a heavy responsibility, so he could not die. As a result, Ji Fa really didn't die.
Yue Ji was the daughter of Goujian, the king of Yue, and married to the king of Chu Zhao. King Chu Zhao had an incurable disease, and people were about to die, Yue Ji begged the Buddha to let her die instead of King Chu Zhao, but she hanged herself, but King Chu Zhao did not come back to life.
Now, Deng Sui said that she wants to be Ji Dan and Yue Ji, is that really the case?
Of course not!
Of course, Deng Sui would not be so stupid as to really pour poison into her mouth, if she really wanted to commit suicide, why would she cry in front of so many palace maids? If she really wanted to commit suicide, it would be better for a person to secretly drink Heding Hong.
Obviously, Deng Sui is acting.
She wants to show everyone in the palace, but also to Liu Zhao, how innocent she is, how vicious the queen is, and she wants to gain the support of public opinion through this scene.
Sure enough, when Deng Sui was pretending to send the poison to his mouth, the poison was snatched by the palace maid who was quick-eyed.
At this moment, a palace maid named Zhao Yu (I don't know if she had colluded with Deng Sui) said excitedly: "Niangniang, the emperor's illness has been cured!"
In fact, Zhao Yu didn't know what the emperor's condition was at all, so she said this in order to let Deng Sui stop looking for a dead end. Deng Sui died, and these palace maids probably had to be buried together.
When Deng Sui heard this, he immediately stopped crying.
Fortunately, the emperor really did not die, and the next day he turned the corner, and Zhao Yu's mouth was like coming to the Buddha to return the spirit.
Next, Deng Sui waited to see a good show.
The scene that Deng Sui performed in his bedroom was passed on by word of mouth by the palace maids, and it has spread throughout the harem, and of course it has also reached Liu Zhao, who escaped.
It is conceivable how angry Liu Zhao was at Yin Xiaohe's performance, okay, I'm not dead yet, you will learn from Lu Pheasant, you are a vicious woman, count me blind, let you be the queen!
As for Deng Sui, Liu Zhao tried his best to comfort him: My dear, don't be afraid, I'm not dead. I won't let the queen bully you!
Yin Xiaohe didn't expect Liu Zhao to come back to life at all, let alone that her plot was listened to by Deng Sui, and stealing chickens and rice was not a loss, but she still didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, and still cursed Deng Sui with her mother.
The abolition has become a foregone conclusion, and now only one excuse is owed.
Who will provide this excuse? Of course, it is not Deng Sui, and the history books use two words: "someone."
Somebody, who is anybody? Nobody knows.
This person may have something to do with Deng Sui, or maybe it has nothing to do with Deng Sui, we can only guess and judge it ourselves.
Anyway, one day in April 102 AD, someone mysteriously panicked to report something bad to Emperor Liu Zhao of Han He. This person said that the queen mother was filial piety and had an affair with her old lady, hid many puppets in their residences, and pierced the puppets with needles every day, and cursed the emperor and Deng Sui for their early death while piercing the puppets.
In the love story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, we know that any dynasty has its particularly sensitive places, which are pain that no one can touch, and whoever touches it suffers. The sensitive point of the Han Dynasty was witchcraft, and the emperors of the Han Dynasty especially believed in ghosts and gods, but they were particularly afraid of ghosts and gods.
Now our simple-minded Liu Zhao, after listening to the secret report, the first thing that comes to mind is not whether the identity of the person who reported the secret is suspicious, how did he know about such a private matter, but when he was critically ill a while ago, Yin Xiaohe said that he hoped that he would die early to poison the Deng family, and he quickly linked these words with the witch Gu that the queen is now practicing, so he quickly determined that Yin Xiaohe was taking revenge.
Once the emperor thinks that there is such a thing, the consequences are serious. Liu Zhao immediately sent Zhang Shen, Shangshu and Chen Bao to investigate the matter.
Woohoo, another unjust case caused by witchcraft in China was born, this is not the judicial system, this is the edict system, the judicial system can handle it impartially, the trial of the case pays attention to the process, but the edict prison system deals with it privately, they only want the result, and it is the result of recognition, because only such a result can show their ability, and their only means is torture. Not guilty will make you guilty.
The result of the investigation is that the suspect will be arrested first, regardless of whether he is indiscriminate. As a result, Deng Xuan's sons Deng Feng and Deng Yi were sent to prison. Yin Xiaohe's younger brothers Yin Yi, Yin Fu, and Yin Chang were sent to the prison! Next is the leather whip and soldering iron, as long as it is a human being, no one can endure such torture, and these are all golden branches and jade leaves with fine skin and tender flesh.
Admit it or not, if you don't admit it, I'll kill you!
Okay, okay, stop fighting, I admit it's not okay yet?
As a result, these golden branches and jade leaves are all "confessed and lenient": Yin Xiaohe did engage in witchcraft with her mother, cursing the emperor and Deng Sui to die early.
With such a result, the cool officials happily went to report to Liu Zhao, and the time had come for them to be promoted and make a fortune.
And before such a result came out, they had already tortured Deng Feng, Deng Yi, and Yin Fu, the younger brother of the Yin Queen, to death.
The report of the cool officials was exactly what Liu Zhao was looking forward to, and now he finally had a good reason to abolish Yin Xiaohe. Liu Zhao immediately sent the prime minister to Yin Xiaohe's dormitory with his waving edict of abolition, to arrest Yin Xiaohe, and put her under house arrest in a cold, damp and dimly lit hut known as "Tong Palace".
Until the day she died, Yin Xiaohe would not understand why this flying disaster fell on her head.
She cried out hysterically, "What did I do wrong, why did you arrest me?"
However, she shouted that the heavens should not be heard, and that the earth was not spiritual.
And at this time, Yin Xiaohe's father, Yin Gang, couldn't stand such a big change and shame, drank poisoned wine and committed suicide.
Soon, the Yin family was all exiled by Liu Zhao to the remote wilderness of the south, Ri Nam County, which is now the Hanoi region of Vietnam, you can imagine what kind of place Hanoi was at that time. Many of the Yin family members died during the exile, and the rest died in Hanoi because they could not adapt to the harsh environment there.
And our poor and lamentable Yin Xiaohe has not been heard from since she was imprisoned, and soon the official documents declared that she was worried about the death of Tonggong, and no one knows how she died of worry. In the group of Chinese concubines, there are too many concubines who are worried about death, which may be the most poignant way for a woman to die.
The Yin family has been maintained by Yin Lihua for more than 80 years, but she didn't expect it to be destroyed in the hands of Yin Xiaohe, although she is also a victim, but she can't get out of it. If Yin Lihua had known, how would she feel? How would the unjust soul of the Yin family appeal after seeing her?
From the beginning to the end of this vigorous witch case, our Deng Sui seemed to have disappeared, and there was no record in the history books of any of her words and deeds during this period, what did she think of the witch case? Was she the mastermind of this witch case? This is still a mystery to this day.
However, we still hope that Deng Sui is not a planner, at most just a bystander.
The most suitable candidate for the queen
Yin Xiaohe is dead, and the next step should be canonized as a new queen.
Everyone has their eyes on Deng Sui, besides her, who else can pick up the burden of the master of the harem?
Liu Zhao was naturally 100 percent willing to canonize Deng Sui as the empress, and His Excellency even pretended to conduct a public opinion poll, and the results showed that the whole palace praised Deng Sui very well, and no one said anything bad about Deng Sui.
No one is perfect, but Deng Sui has become a perfect person in the eyes of others, which seems a bit abnormal. It can be seen from this that Deng Sui's communication skills are very clever.
When Liu Zhao told Deng Sui about his intention to make her queen, she politely refused.
She said that she is also responsible for such a big thing, she has to think about it behind closed doors, burn incense and worship Buddha all day long, pray for the souls of the deceased, pray for the blessing of the Han Son of Heaven, and pray for the blessings of the people of the world.
I don't know if she is really responsible or not, if she is really responsible, then the responsibility is not ordinarily big, and it is not something that can be made up by burning some incense and worshipping the Buddha. If there is no responsibility, this move will undoubtedly earn her a good name.
She didn't really refuse the position of queen, she felt that now was not the time, and she had to adopt a strategy of retreating as advancing. Sooner or later, the queen will be hers, so what does it matter if she is early or night? At this critical moment, she must show that she has no coveting of the queen's position. Everything is under her control, and she has to do enough superficial things.
Sure enough, for three months in a row, Deng Sui did what she said, closed her door, and in her private Buddhist hall, she burned incense and worshiped the Buddha, coarse tea and light rice, and her sleep time was greatly reduced.
Deng Sui's actions were seen by her personal palace maid and quickly spread.
The palace almost regarded Deng Sui as a living bodhisattva.
Three months later, Deng Sui went to visit Liu Zhao, and Liu Zhao was overjoyed and said, "You can be the queen this time, right?"
Unexpectedly, Deng Sui refused again, but this time the refusal was different from the last time, this time it was just said that Yin Xiaohe did not die for long, and she would be the queen, and she had a bad reputation when she said it.
When a man is captivated by a woman, anything she says is a golden word to him. Liu Zhao nodded frequently and praised Deng Sui for thinking thoughtfully.
When Liu Zhao proposed to canonize her as the queen for the third time, Deng Sui had no reason to refuse, and it would be obvious hypocrisy to refuse again.
When Deng Sui was twenty-one years old, she became the queen as she wished, realizing her dream for many years.
Being a queen, this is Deng Sui's ideal, and there is no essential difference between it and any person's ideal. She didn't see it as a dream, only as an ideal. Dreams are often unrealizable, and ideals do not need to rely on miracles, they can be realized by their own efforts.
Deng Sui is one of the most scheming queens in Chinese history, don't get me wrong, scheming here is not a derogatory term, Deng Sui's scheming is not like Lu Pheasant's scheming, Deng Sui's scheming is to use legitimate means, make full use of various resources, judge the situation, and achieve their goals step by step.
We are glad that Deng Sui did not disappoint us, she did not become a person like Lu Pheasant, judging from the performance in the back, she is indeed more suitable to be a queen than Yin Xiaohe.
When Yin Xiaohe was in power, the harem advocated extravagance, and the tributes from all over the country were endless, and the warehouses were piled up like hills, and some of them rotted before they had time to be used, and Yin Xiaohe didn't care about these at all, she didn't refuse to come, and the more the better. Anyway, she doesn't have to pay for it, don't do it in vain, and it's none of her business to waste it.
And Deng Sui took the initiative to reduce the local government's annual tribute to the harem, and she ordered that only some useful things be collected in the annual tribute, such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and luxury goods such as jewelry.
This move won the hearts of the people, and the local government no longer had to compare with each other in order to curry favor with the queen, to see who gave more jewelry and who sent more jewelry. The local government also saved a considerable amount of financial expenditure to develop local production, so they all applauded and praised Deng Sui's merits.
According to the regulations, Deng Sui was promoted to the queen, and her relatives should be rewarded, the addition of officials, and the promotion of knights. When Yin Lihua was not the queen back then, Liu Xiu wanted to make her relative marquis, but she refused. Now Deng Sui is already the mother of a country, and Liu Zhao wanted to make her relatives official, but she also refused. Deng Sui only let her brother Deng Qiu be a little tiger general, which was climbed up by her brother by his own ability. It can be seen that Deng Sui never uses the public for personal gain, but leads by example, which can be an example for the imperial concubines of all dynasties.
Deng Sui is also a good wife, although Liu Zhao is seriously ill and does not die, but his body has always been very weak, and he has to lie in bed to recuperate.
Deng Sui went to Liu Zhao's side every day to wait for him, personally decocted medicine for him, and fed him in person. When he slept, she didn't leave, just waited by the side, for fear that her husband would wake up at any time and ask for something. In fact, there are people who do these things, but she insists on doing it herself, because she knows that what the patient needs most is not the doctor or the person who waits for him, but relatives and lovers, who are by his side, accompany him, cheer him up, give him warmth, and give him confidence. In this way, the patient will get better quickly.
Every time she returned to her bedroom, Deng Sui was so tired that she couldn't straighten her waist, but she didn't complain. If we insist that Deng Sui did this with a purpose, then even if she had a purpose, what did it matter? Who could do it like her? Who can do anything without a purpose?
However, Deng Sui's careful care did not make her husband recover, Liu Zhao's condition became more and more serious, as if the last serious illness was specially for the purpose of canonizing Deng Sui as the queen, and now that Deng Sui has become the queen, he can leave with confidence.
In the winter of 105 AD, the third year of Deng Sui's reign as empress, Liu Zhao held Deng Sui's hand and closed his eyes.
Deng Sui burst into tears.
Now she just wants to be a woman, she just wants to be a wife who loves her husband deeply, and she cries happily for her dead husband.
This woman, why do you have so many tears? She once kept filial piety for her father for three years, and her tears haven't dried up? If crying can be disguised, then if she lives until now, Deng Sui will definitely be an Oscar-winning actress.
Queen Mother's career
Liu Zhao is dead, and the love story of Deng Sui and Liu Zhao is about to come to an end.
Now, Deng Sui is twenty-one years old and has become the queen mother, and there are many queen mothers like her in history.
No one is perfect, Deng Sui did a not so bright thing in her career as the queen mother, which is also the biggest regret of her life.
It's all the power to blame. Deng Sui tasted the taste of power, once it was touched, it was difficult to give up, in order to make his power greater, Deng Sui did something against his conscience.
That is, she violated the system handed down by her ancestors and supported her youngest son as emperor, not the eldest son.
The process at that time was like this: when Liu Zhao died, there was no prince in the palace at that time, let alone the crown prince. Didn't Liu Zhao have any children? So where did his son go? It turned out that several of the children Liu Zhao had given birth to before had died inexplicably, and Liu Zhao had been unable to find out the results for a long time, so he suspected that someone in the palace had deliberately harmed his heirs. In order to avoid the future children being poisoned again, they were quietly carried to the people to raise them when they were born.
Now, Liu Zhao is dead, and Deng Sui has taken the two princes into the palace, and neither of these two princes was born to her. If they were all her biological sons, there would be no later story.
One is eight-year-old Liu Sheng, and the other is Liu Long, who has only been waiting to be fed for three months.
According to the principle of succession by the eldest son, Liu Sheng should inherit the throne. But Liu Sheng is already eight years old and already sensible, and he will be a little adult in a few years. Liu Sheng became an emperor, and he would definitely not listen to his own words. So she decided to make Liu Long emperor. Liu Long became the emperor, in essence, she became the emperor.
This surprised the ministers, but the raw rice had already been cooked and the ministers had little power to resist, so they had to compromise.
For the sake of safety, Deng Sui promoted her relatives again: the eldest brother Deng Qiu was promoted from the general of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang to the Marquis of Shangcai and the general of the chariot cavalry, and his position was higher than that of the third duke, and more importantly, he was also in charge of the military power; the younger brother Deng Kui was promoted from the Huangmen Shilang to the general of the Tiger Ben, echoing the eldest brother from afar; and the other two brothers, Deng Hong and Deng Chang, were both promoted to the rank of servant and became the big names among the civil officials.
With such a guarantee, Deng Sui seems to be able to sit back and relax, but she is not at ease, she thinks more long-term, what if Liu Long dies soon?
So, Deng Sui took another remedy: after Liu Zhao's funeral, his brothers had to go to their respective feudal states, and at this time, Deng Sui left Liu Qing's son Liu Hu behind. It's strange that Liu Hu is not Deng Sui's son, and he is five years older than Liu Sheng, so why should he leave Liu Hu as a backup?
The reason is actually very simple, Liu Sheng has no blood relationship with her, and Liu Hu is her nephew, although he is not a relative, but he is a relative, and Liu Hu's age is still young, he is the emperor, and Deng Sui is the same as the power. If Liu Sheng became the emperor, I don't know what the consequences would be, because when Liu Long was appointed emperor, he offended Liu Sheng and a group of ministers who supported Liu Sheng.
Deng Sui's vision is indeed long-term.
Even more astonishing, as she feared, Liu Long died before he was a year old, making him the youngest emperor in Chinese history to succeed to the throne and the youngest to die.
As soon as Liu Long died, Deng Sui immediately set up Liu Hu as the emperor, and the speed was staggering!
This is the multi-faceted girl Deng Sui, whose political skills are estimated to be much higher than those male monarchs.
In addition to political skills, Deng Sui's diligence and love for the people are also incomparable to many emperors in history.
One year, floods of varying severity occurred across the country. Deng Sui was worried, and quickly ordered the reduction of all kinds of royal chariots, horses, delicacies, clothing, and various luxury goods for high-ranking officials such as Taiguan, Shang Fang, and the Internal Affairs Department. At the same time, it was ordered that in addition to worshipping the ancestral ancestral temple, court officials were not allowed to eat polished rice and white noodles. Deng Sui led by example, eating only two meals a day, and they were all millet and vegetables.
In addition, Deng Sui also did a great good thing, reducing the number of palace maids, allowing palace maids to choose freely, leaving or staying, and paying travel expenses when they left, and becoming free citizens. We know that due to the large number of palace maids, it will consume a lot of financial resources of the country. The savings from the reduction of palace maids are very considerable.
All the financial resources saved by all this are used for disaster relief, and no one is allowed to embezzle, otherwise they will be severely punished!
Thanks to Deng Sui's efforts, the flood of that year soon became a thing of the past, and the people soon ate rice and white noodles again. However, the frugal system established by Deng Sui was not abolished.
Deng Sui had seen the tragedy brought about by the witch Gu case with her own eyes, so when she was in power, she was particularly cautious in handling the witch case, ordering that no one should be arrested or tortured if there was not enough evidence, and that even if she was convicted, she should be appropriately punished, and the death penalty could not be allowed.
Once a basket of jewels was lost in the palace, the judicial officers grabbed a few palace maids and tortured them, and the palace maids couldn't bear the pain and had to confess. But on the day of the execution, several palace maids cried and shouted "wronged". When this matter reached Deng Sui's ears, she became suspicious. Ordered someone to release the palace maids first and investigate the matter thoroughly. As a result, the real thief was a self-stealing guy, and a guard was in charge of guarding the jewelry, but he stole it himself and used a small amount of jewelry to buy off the judicial officer. The truth of an unjust case has been revealed. Deng Sui severely punished the guards, and the judicial officers who bent the law for favoritism were also dismissed from their posts and banned from being officials for eternity. At this point, judicial officers no longer dare to handle cases casually, and they no longer dare to torture prisoners casually.
The above are just a few small things that show Deng Sui's diligence and love for the people, if you really want to list Deng Sui's political achievements, I am afraid that I will not be able to finish talking about three days and three nights. She was a good queen when she was a queen, and she was also a good queen mother when she was a queen mother. In the days when she was in power, the world was peaceful, and there were no unjust cases in the palace, and everything was in order. In 121 A.D., Deng Sui, who had listened to the government for 16 years, died of hemoptysis, and before he died, he also did a good deed, issued an edict, and granted amnesty to the world. At her request, after her death, she was buried with Liu Zhao.
is such a strange woman, still very controversial, and some people put hats like yin owl and two-faced on Deng Sui's head, a romantic character through the ages, rain and wind, who is right and wrong, everyone has a scale in their hearts.
I'm going to take fate by the throat. Deng Sui did it.
For that alone, we have to admire her.
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